HOLLYWOOD AND WESTERN/SUPER SMOOTH BOOK LAUNCH

We just arrived home in Australia this week after spending the last year living in California!Its great to be back!We have alot going on here over the next month before we head back to the crazyness of LA!

Coming up at the end of this month we have our solo show at Per Square Metre..HOLLYWOOD AND WESTERPresentd by DONT BAN THE CAN.We have all new paintings based on our time spent in LA.And will be painting the gallery walls out with a full installation.To keep with the Los Angeles theme we will also be showing a series of Collaborations we have done with some of LA’s finest!Jersey Joe Rime, Greg Craola Simkins, The Witness and KMNDZ.

The opening reception is on Thursday 1st April from 7-10pm.And the great people at TIGER BEER and VODKA O have supplied a very generous amount of drinks for the party!So should be an eventfull night!

The show will then run until the 11th April.At Per Square Metre Gallery.191-193 Johnston St,Collingwood.039417 7991.info@persquaremetre.compersquaremetre.com

But wait…theres more!!!!

SUPER SMOOTH.To coincide with our returne to Melbourne, and our show here we will be having a book launch for our first book!Titled Super Smooth, it will be a limited run of 100 books,Signed and numbered by us.The book is a brief overview of our last 12 months in the United States.Life, Walls and paintings.

And thanks to REVOLVER UPSTAIRS we will be having a ONE NIGHT ONLY party to celebrate the launch!And we will be there on the night customising the inside covers.Also…Burn Clothing have donated 50 limited T shirts that we have designed with them.And will be giving them away with the first 50 books sold!prett sweet indead!!!!Also..follow this event on FACEBOOK here: SUPER SMOOTH

Raven and Sonik went to São Paulo, Brazil in December of 1997 to put together a story on Brazilian graffiti for 12ozProphet’s sixth issue. Twist had connected us with Os Gemeos, and we went there to introduce them to the world via our magazine. The sight of São Paulo and the otherworldly graffiti scene exploding over its gut-wrenching social landscape, the peculiarly Brazilian collision of poverty and wealth, was a complete shock. Meeting Os Gemeos – as well as Nina, Vitche, and Herbert Baglione, gave us friends for life, and the sight of their work was a glimpse into the future of an art movement we thought we knew, but even now, more than a dozen years later, has yet to catch up. Here’s a short video edited from footage thought to have been lost for well over a decade.

This is ‘Jesse’, the newest Vicious Vixen inspired by my lovelyfriend, Jesse Lee. She is done in acrylic and gold leaf on a usedskateboard. I am submitting her to be on display at the ‘Skate thisArt 2010′ show held at Gallery 28, 1228 Grant Ave @ Columbus, SF, CA.This year the profits of the show are going to be donated to theNorth Beach Citizens center.

April 17, 6-9 pm, reception includes: beverages & snacks, auction andsales of skateboard art, raffles , and four short documentaries:premieres of “Girls on Girls” (new doc on women punk music pioneersof late ’70’s – early ’80’s SF music scene) by Patrick O’Neil and“Skate this Art – Make This Art” by Geo Epsilanty; the return of “Hitthe Decks” by Caleb Gatlin and “YAA Girlz and the Deadly Sparks” byPatrick O’Neil (doc about all female skate-punk clubs of SF in early’80’s).